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Rumors of Retail Insurance Brokers’ Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, but to Remain Indispensable, They Must Embrace Insurtech

The significance of the partnership between retail insurance and Insurtech for ensuring long-term growth and success in the sector should not be overlooked.

From Analysis Paralysis to AI Triumph: A Guide to Picking the Right Vendor

Rising Departures: Addressing the Great Resignation and Its Effects on Workplace Safety

Inflation Is Hitting Consumer Prices Hard. Here’s Why Workers’ Comp Hasn’t Felt It — Yet

Here Are the Questions to Ask About Your PFML Benefits Amid Evolving State Laws

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Never Let Them Hear You Sigh

See yourself as an ambassador for your organization — regardless of the questions your insurance or business partners ask you.

Calculating the Costs of Fracking

The reaction to New York State banning fracking shows a disconnect between insurers, politicians and environmentalists.

Sony Incident Highlights Risk Struggles

There are two distinct risk issues at play in the Sony issue: data security and freedom of speech.

TRIA Twilight Zone

Inaction by Congress leaves the industry, customers, and regulators asking, “Now what?”

A Call to Arms

The Sony hacking makes real the fear that all the risk mitigation protocols you’ve become accustomed to may have outgrown their usefulness.

Congress Must Act in 2015

It’s crucial that Congress pass TRIA reauthorization and NARAB early in 2015. 

Left To Die On the Vine

I hate to be one of “those guys” who blames everything on our elected officials, but this time they deserve it.

TRIA Inaction is ‘Disconcerting’

Politics trumped rational decision-making and put businesses in the cross hairs of potentially having lapses in coverage.

5 Tools to Help Risk Managers Before a Cyber Loss

Cyber insurance offers benefits to risk managers, even in absence of a data breach. 

Managing Risk in the Tail

All stakeholders must understand and agree upon your organization’s definition of risk in order to effectively manage it.

Can ‘Ebola-mania’ Give Way to a National Reset?

We must learn from past missteps and move forward, based on science and evidence-based risk management. 

Give It Back and Pay It Forward

Facilitating risk management education among the younger generation will benefit both young and old.

Backing Out of TRIA Harms Us All

The security of our nation is the government’s primary responsibility.

Maximize the Advantage of Finite Risk

Risk financing techniques may offer benefits to companies dealing with environmental liabilities.

Pooled Resources a Plus for All

Creating and embracing a culture of return to work requires extensive education, training and commitment from all managers.

A Failure of Trust

The inability to fully establish credibility and trust exacerbated what should have been a manageable Ebola outbreak.

An Uncertain Future

It will be a wild ride for the primary and excess GL market in 2015.

Information Dominance vs. Information Overload

Is information overload reducing the effectiveness of your claims operations?

Building Resilience From Top to Bottom  

Smart supply-chain management requires a thorough understanding of the risks that could impact suppliers, from the first-tier all the way down the line.

ERM and the Art of War: Tactics

The fourth chapter in Grace Crickette’s Risk Insider series on implementing enterprise risk management.